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Contributors

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Dennis Russell is an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journal
ism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University, where he specializes in
mass-mediated popular culture. Along with PCR, Russell has published in Studies

in Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Southwestern Mass Communica
tion Journal, and Communications and the Law.
Jack Slay, Jr. is an associate professor of English and teaches literature and com
position at LaGrange College in Georgia. “I’m married to Lori and we have three
boys, Kirk, Justin, and Reed. In between teaching and parenting, I write (usually in
the wee hours). I’ve published fiction in such places as Mississippi, Scouting, The
Habersham Review, and The Flint River Review. I’ve published academic articles
in Critique, The Explicator, Border States, Notes on Contemporary Fiction, and
the collection The Grotesque in Literature. I received my B.A .and M.A. in En
glish from Mississippi State University and my Ph.D. in English from the Univer
sity of Tennesssee.”

H. Peter Steeves is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University where
he specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology. He has
published the book Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquity
(Kluwer, 1998) and is the editor of, and a contributor to, Animal Others: On Eth
ics, Ontology, and Animal Life (SUNY, 1999). He is also interested in the
philosophic analysis of popular culture and is currently completing two books on
the topic: one an analysis of Disney in all of its cultural manifestations; the other,
an attempt to offer a postmodern theory of comedy with focus on the work of
Andy Kaufman, David Letterman, Monty Python, and The Simpsons. Peter ad
mits that he once split fours playing blackjack in Vegas. Once.
Phillip Vannini is a fourth year doctoral student in sociology at Washington State
University. Bom in Florence, Italy in 1974, he has been studying and researching
love and sexuality in American culture from a truly multidisciplinary perspective.
His current research interests include the study of love rhetoric in teen pop music
and the culture of misogyny.

Richard A. Voeltz is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History
and Government at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma where he teaches
courses in Humanities, Popular Culture, British History and Modem European
History.